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2	[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} Every family has a rebel...even the First Family.]]]]
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4	''Chasing Liberty'' is a 2004 RomanticComedy starring Music/MandyMoore and Creator/MatthewGoode.
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6	You're the [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President's]] daughter, and as such you have had some amazing experiences. Travelling the country in UsefulNotes/AirForceOne (thankfully not ''[[Film/AirForceOne that]]'' Air Force One), living in that [[BigFancyHouse fabulous house]], touring along the campaign trail, attending posh schools and universities. Of course along with the benefits of your Daddy's post come the trials of life in the public spotlight.
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8	Enter Anna (Moore), the beloved only child of the POTUS, whose only desire is to head out with her bestie for a bit of a road trip across Europe. She and her father come to a compromise, and she is allowed one evening without a Secret Service detail. When Anna discovers that her father, El Presidente, didn't keep his end of the bargain, or his goons out of her life for the evening, she hatches a plan to get back at him.
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10	Thus begins the story of a [[RebelliousPrincess girl]], her father, and the trip that changed their relationship forever... Oh, and there's a romance in there somewhere.
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14	!!This film contains examples of:
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16	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove
17	* BodyguardCrush
18	* DitchTheBodyguards: The basis of the entire film.
19	* FakeOutMakeOut: Ben does this to Anna on a gondola to stop the Secret Service agents from seeing them.
20	* HoneyTrap: Gender-switched ''and'' inverted: The rebellious guy, Ben, that Anna ran into and ran off with after ditching her guards is [[spoiler:in fact a Secret Service agent set up as bait to keep her ''out'' of trouble.]]
21	* IsThisThingOn: {{Inverted}}. A Secret Service agent, towards the end of a phone call with the President, proceeds to say that [[StupidestThingIveEverHeard this was one of the stupidest plans he'd ever seen anyone come up with]]. Then informs his partner, who is [[OhCrap staring at him aghast]], that the President hung up about a minute earlier.
22	* ModestyBedsheet: Anna does this ''twice'' with Ben.
23	* PairTheSpares: The Secret Service agents eventually find love in each other.
24	* RoadTripRomance
25	* SeparatedByACommonLanguage: In London, Anna doesn't understand the phrase "Tele's broke, and there's no lift" before it's translated: "Television's broken, elevator: none."
26	* UnderCoverCopReveal: Anna eventually figures out that the guy she's been hanging out with while on the run from her bodyguards is in fact [[spoiler: an undercover Secret Service agent, specifically set up as bait for her if she tried to run off.]]
27	* VerbingNouny

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